Sept. 12
Bo Jayatilaka (UofM)
"Top Mass in CDF": abstract, talk (pdf)

Sept. 19
Rebecca Bernstein (UofM)
"Detailed Chemical Abundances of Extragalactic Globular Clusters: a New Tool for Studying Galaxy Formation.": abstract,

Sept. 26
Jim Matthews (LSU)
"First Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory": talk (ppt)

Oct. 3
Joe Mohr (UIUC)
"Galaxi Clusters and Studies of the Cosmic Acceleration": talk (pdf)

Oct. 10
Alexei Vikhlinin (CFA Harvard)
"Cluster structure and cosmological applications from Chandra X-ray data":

Oct. 17
No seminar (Fall Break)


Oct. 24
No seminar (Faculty Meeting)


Oct. 31
Pierre Sikivie (UFL)
"Axions": abstract,

Nov. 7
Mikhail Dubrovin (WSU)
"Recent Results from CLEO":":abstract, talk (pdf), (ppt)

Nov. 14
Elena Rasia (University of Padua, ITALY)
"X-ray analysis of Simulated Galaxy Clusters: Mass and Temperature Estimates": talk (pdf),

Nov. 21
Nikolai Tolich (LBNL)
"Geoneutrinos in KAMLand":":abstract, talk (pdf)

Nov. 28
Harris Kagan (OSU)
"Diamond Detectors for Particle Physics":abstract, talk (pdf)

Dec 5
Rocky Kolb (University of Chicago)
"Cosmic Acceleration without Dark Energy"


Dec. 12
Lars Hernquist (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
"A New Model for Quasar Lightcurves and Lifetimes":

Winter 2006 Series

Jan. 9
Masahiro Morii (Harvard)
"Cracking the Unitarity Triangle: A Quest In Flavor Physics":  canceled

Jan. 16
No seminar (MLK)

Jan. 23 
Yukio Tomozawa (UofM)
"Information Paradox for Black Holes and the Prediction for  Gamma-Rays and Neutrinos from Quasars": abstract

Jan. 30 
Dan Kaplan (IIT) 
" Muon Cooling, Neutrino Factories, Muon Colliders, and the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment": abstract, talk (pdf)

Feb.  6
Paul Drake (UofM, Department of Space Sciences)
"Connecting laboratory experiments with astrophysical phenomena": abstract

Feb. 13  
Tom Wrigth (UofM)
"Higgs searches at the Tevatron": canceled

Feb. 20
Simon Swordy (University of Chicago)
"TEV Astronomy Comes of Age": abstract

Feb  27 - No seminar (Spring Break)

Mar. 6
Ann Parsons, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
"Short, Hard Gamma Ray Bursts -- Mystery Solved???":  abstract

Mar. 13 
Amber Miller (Columbia University)
"The Cosmic Microwave Background - The Quest for B-modes": abstract

Mar. 20  
Kael Hanson (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"News from the South Pole Neutrino Telescope Arrays": abstract, talk (ppt)

Mar. 27   
Niki Saoulidou (FNAL)
"Numi/Minos results": canceled

Apr. 3
Roy Schwitters (Austin Center for Particle Physics)
"Imaging Mayan Pyramids with Cosmic Ray Muons": talk (ppt) (pdf)

Apr. 10   
Dan Eisenstein (University of Arizona)
"Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound": abstract, talk

Apr. 17 
Elizabeth Blanton (Boston University) 
"Radio Sources in Galaxi Clusters"